Enjoying a sense of peace one stitch at a time
Here is my choice for this week’s Blue Monday – anyone for a cappuccino? Sheer heavenly bliss … nectar for the soul … 😀
Tomorrow’s Ruby Tuesday post will highlight the place we consumed this wee delicacy… Don’tcha just LOVE those beautiful hand-made pottery mugs and wooden trays it served in – such a lovely touch 🙂
Here is my choice for this week’s Scenic Sunday – a lighthouse on the Great Ocean Road drive from Melbourne to Adelaide (sorry, the name/place escapes me right now!).
This week’s theme is ”Music” and here are some music moments from our time spent in Fiji.
From the left: Joe, me and Akuila
Dokko – the local landowner, and proprietor of the staff kava hut – this was my Christmas present to him … he really REALLY wanted a banjo, bless his heart!
Here is my choice for this week’s Ruby Tuesday – a King Parrot from Queensland.
As I mentioned yesterday, I am now selling some of my scissor fobs via an ArtFire store – I have only managed to load up about half of my stock so far (that took me all the rest of the day yesterday), so not all colours and styles are available yet.
The first ten sales will have the proceeds donated to Coral and her family, in aid of baby Timothy.
Timothy was born on April 16th this year and diagnosed with a rare form of Juvenile Leukemia on the 1st of July. The money will be going towards Timothy’s escalating medical costs.
Please do come and support a good cause, and help me sell those first ten fobs! Just click on the ArtFire link above, or the thumbnail below, and it should take you directly to my storefront 🙂
Alternatively, if you want to make a straight-out donation, I’m happy to take any and all donations and add them to the “bucket” to send to Coral. I can accept funds via PayPal (my email is shakatak @ iinet . net . au – just remember to take the extra spaces out).
Also, if you’re able to advertise on your own blog for this good cause, I’d be really grateful – if there’s enough business generated, I may be able to offer the proceeds of more than ten fobs 🙂
Here is my choice for this week’s Blue Monday – a Blue and Yellow Macaw … love love LOVE that colour!!! 😀
A thousand apologies, but I’ve been very lax in not drawing names out of a ‘hat’ earlier for the winners of my 4th Blogaversary prize draw. I have finally pulled my finger out and can confirm that the following ladies are the winners of a beaded scissors fob made by yours truly, in a colour of their choice.
Congrats ladies! Two of you have the same preferred choice, but I should be able to whip a duplicate up (or close to it) 🙂
For anyone interested, I will shortly be adding the remaining items, plus a whole heap more of my fobs, to my ArtFire store shortly and it will then be open for business. Unfortunately it takes me forever to load up one item, so it’ll be a while longer yet before that happens properly. I originally starting setting up an Etsy store, then changed my mind after being charged US$6 just for adding the piccies – ArtFire don’t charge fees, so it’s much better for me if I don’t sell any! 😉
I intend the sale of the first 10 scissor fobs (assuming I actually manage to sell 10 of them!) to go towards a good cause. I am going to donate the proceeds of the fob sales (not including the postage) to help out a fellow kind-hearted blogger, whose family is struggling with the medical costs of one sweet little fella. Anyway, I’ll make a separate announcement as soon as the store has items available for sale!
As well as the blogaversary winners, I can also confirm that the following lovely ladies will be the recipients of a PIF from me some time during the next 12 months. Thanks for the support ladies – I hope you’re not disappointed 😛
I’ll send an email shortly, as I’ll need to ensure I have a current mailing address for you all, and then I have the fun time of starting to choose what to make 🙂
This week I’ve been a bit anti-social at home, rather being glued to the Ghost Trappers chat room and radio in my bedroom, so yesterday I made an effort to catch up with Katie while watching a bit of recorded TV, and decided to finish off a couple of old stitched ornies while sitting around. The following are the results of my wee finishing session – some were stitched by Mum (those on Aida), while the others were stitched by me.
The skiing Santa was one of the first XS pieces I ever stitched many years ago – Mum accidentally took it out of its hoop frame holder, so I made it into an ornie instead 🙂
I still have a HUGE pile of finishing yet to be done, but I figure if I just pull a few out every now and then it will eventually get whittled down. I’ve really lost my confidence with finishing over the last couple of years, so I think I need to just not think about it, and just do it – seems to be working so far! 😀
I also finished a pinkeep last night too, but I’m not happy with it this morning when seeing it in daylight, so I’m going to replace the ribbon used on it today, and hopefully will like the finished result a bit better.
Here is my choice for this week’s Scenic Sunday – Mossman Gorge, near Port Douglas, Queensland.
This week’s theme is ”Veterans/Military” and the following photos are scans of some photos I took in about 1999 in Paris, France at the Arc de Triomphe. Perhaps not the best quality due to the scanning (and the fact they were taken on a crappy old point and shoot), but I love ’em just the same! 😀
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